SUMMARY:

• Software Test Engineer with Ten years of Software Testing in the Information Technology area with a business and technical background.
• Skills include, but not limited to creation and execution of automated test scripts, Functional and Regression testing, Documentation, Programming and Quality Assurance.
• Developed test plans and test cases for various business applications, and have complete familiarity with all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Extensively involved in Quality Assurance of Web based, client/server applications.
• Experienced with supporting test cycles, compiling test status reports, participating in defect status meetings, project status meetings and interacting with Project Managers, Operation Teams and Engineers.
• Proficient in different phases of testing: Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing.
• Worked with program management, software development, operations management and end users to test and document projects and project enhancements.
• Manually execute functional, regression, usability, smoke, and user acceptance and cross browser testing.
• Performed Testing on multiple version of IE, Chrome, Safari as well as Android device.
• Performed Section 508 compliance testing using JAWS and WATT tools.
• Experience in Black Box Testing with a complete Quality Assurance cycle - from testing, defect logging, and verification of fixed bugs.
• Knowledge of Software Engineering methodology like Waterfall and Agile.
• Experience in System, Integration, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance testing type
• Expertise on various defect tracking tools like JIRA and HP ALM.
• Find defects and log defects in QA template, SharePoint, and track status of defects using SharePoint/JIRA.
• Design website keeping Section 508 compliance.
• Strong familiarity with I Phone and android operating systems and application
• Interacted with all levels of clients from End users to Senior Management and contribute a lot to the success of projects.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work as part of a team or on my own. Versatile team player with excellent interpersonal and technical documentation skills and handling multiple projects simultaneously.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Manual Testing and good knowledge in Automation Testing of web based Applications, Mobile Applications and Client Server Applications, User Acceptance Testing
• Bug Reporting Tools HP Quality Center/ALM, JIRA
• Operating System Windows
• Methodology Waterfall, Agile/SCRUM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington,DC

Software Test Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participated in user session during Requirements Analysis phase.
• Responsible for analysis of Use Cases and Business Requirements.
• Actively involved in all phases of the Software Testing like Analyzing System Requirements, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Case Design and System Testing.
• Involved in identifying and creating the Test Data required for script execution.
• Created test cases in HP ALM and mapped them against the use cases and business requirements.
• Executed test cases from HP ALM and tracked their status and provided status (defect) report during defect triage.
• Created defects in HP ALM and mapped them to HP ALM test cases.
• Involved in scheduling and running the batch jobs and verifying the results.
• Identified, documented and prioritized the Defects for each build and tracked fixed defects on daily basis and performed retesting of fixed defects.
• Prepared list of recommendations for enhancement on the application not covered by business requirement.
• Prepared daily status reports and provided them to the Project team.
• Provided test effort estimates, performed sizing and resource allocation for the entire QA testing efforts for each environment.
• Coordinated all testing and UAT testing to satisfy clients' needs and give recommendation for offshore modeling.
• Involved in Defect triaging and retesting during the Product Acceptance testing phase.
• Attended Status meetings with Functional Lead on testing update.
• Developed Manual Test Scripts from the Scenarios and executed them in SIT environment.
• Involved in creating Test Scenario's, Test Data and supporting End users during UAT.

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience working under agile development methodology.
• Ensured standardized utilization of Atlassian JIRA for 100% of defects and test cases management for assigned projects.
• Timely update of defect and test case during system test phase using Metrics.
• Contributed to standard testing status reporting. Weekly status reports: on-time and accurate. Semi-weekly or daily status reports during system test phase for major projects as required and included target scorecard.
• Improved efficiency of testing approach between IT & UAT for execution, results sharing and status reporting. Supported UAT, shared test cases and defect analysis as needed.
• Worked closely with development to provide quality defect descriptions and supporting information to facilitate defect resolution. Provided regular updates on test status and shared the test results.
• Correct usage of standard fields and naming conventions as applicable adherence to defect priority definitions and test case status definitions

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performed Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) and test activities including Functional, Integration, Regression and Real-time End to End Testing.
• Efficiently evaluating software, procedures, designs, and follows the SDLC processes.
• Effectively manage the QC data and lead the defect management process.
• Cross Verification of the Test cases and Test result.
• Performed SDLC-PMAP Review Processes to deploy into the Production.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of applications.
• Experience in reviewing Requirements, Test cases, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, and Test Plans of both manual and automated tests.
• Validated Technical requirements definitions and project estimation/sizing documents.
• Maintained numbers of requirements and have documented and done RTM to ensure software requirement traceability.
• Extensive experience in Manual Testing as well as Automation using test automation tools such as Quick Test Professional (QTP), and Jira (Atlassian).
• Involved in Smoke, GUI, Functionality, Integration, Ad-hoc, Stress, System, Front-end, and Regression testing on many Client/Server and web applications.
• Thorough understanding of QA Methodologies like Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative, Agile.
• Experience in Back-end testing of application by executing SQL commands.
• Ability to work independently with in time constraints and under minimum supervision.
• Very close interaction with the Team, Team Leads, PM’s and SME’s.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills with clear understanding of team building.
• Good team player with excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal and writing skills.
• Involved in Section 508 Testing to test the accessibility and readability of the apps.
• Uploading Test Documents into the Shared Drive and SharePoint.

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Developed and executed software test plans & scripts, including component testing, integration testing, regression testing, smoke and stress testing.
• Maintained documentation of test results.
• Analyzed test results to ensure existing functionality and recommends corrective action.
• Provided training in creation of test cases for manual and automated testing.
• Participated in bug reviews to see that quality criteria are upheld.
• Worked with Project Managers and Leads to create test schedules.
• Monitored schedules and test resources to keep commitments, identifies risks and opportunities, and tracks effort estimates and actual.
• Participated in the design of the software to advise of common errors and high-risk areas
• Ensured that all bugs are logged with adequate information to assist developers in reducing the problem.
• Participated in creating estimated LOE’s for new and existing projects.
• Assisted with the implementation of QA policies and procedures.
• Created test documentation, such as test cases and test scripts for each project assigned.
• Created and maintained Requirement Traceability Matrix.
• Analyzed user requirements and software requirement specifications documents
• Participated in bugs and enhancement review meetings
• Performed user acceptance testing, interacted with users for execution of test cases in UAT.

Confidential, NYC, NEW YORK

Software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Scenarios, Test Data and Traceability Matrix.
• Conducted Integration, System, Functional, GUI, Regression, Smoke, Database Integrity, User-Acceptance (UAT) and Performance testing.
• Managed the requirements using Requirements Plan Manager (Test Director).
• Developed Test Cases and Test Design using Test Plan Manager (Test Director).
• Based on Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) designed written and implemented Software test plans, Test design specifications and Test cases.
• Performed Regression, Integration, UAT, End to End testing to verify the functionality with the new codes introduced for modification and/or enhancement using Quick Test Professional.
• Created Traceability between Requirements and Test Cases.
• Tracked the defects using Test Director and generated defect summary reports.
• Maintained Test Logs, Test Summary reports and participated in defect review / Status Meetings.